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First Xouvert Milestone Released
An anonymous reader writes "
The first milestone of xouvert, the X-server replacement has been released. Xouvert includes MAS giving the X server its very own sound server. Nice. :) Also, just noticed that enlightenment quietly released an update to the 0.16 series.
" (Here's a link to the Xouvert download page.)
Man, do you ever need to broaden your horizons..
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Instead, they are providing a 'branch' of XFree86 that will focus on being bleeding-edge and providing fast turnaround for development and testing, so that they can interface with the slow, bloated XFree86 organization to improve XFree86.
That's what's bad about OpenSource. Everyone wants to do the 'kewl' stuff an no one wants to do the grind that many of these projects need. I'm sorry but a hell of a lot of Open Source software just isn't carried out professionally. Yes you can leap in and add all sorts of cool and froody stuff but the boring bits like quality control, documentation etc gets left behind. Where are the code reviews, test suites and the like? It still has the feeling of bedroom hacker development. If I ran my development team like some of these projects are run I would be severely slapped!
I have a Linux PDA. I'm still using the software it came with despite trying open source alternatives every couple of months or so. Why? Because some functionality is missing because it's not kewl. The documentation is crap. It's as buggy as hell At least with the comercial variant time was taken to clean it up. Yes it may be technologically behind but it's reliable.
And then there's the common misconception that Open Source == Linux Development and Linux == UNIX. Both are wrong. I've can't count the number of times I've tried to use Open Source "UNIX" software to find it only works on Linux. I'm impressed at how far Linux has come and if you have a cheap PC then it's a great OS but it's still a toy OS compared to what I'm used to.